Building construction



Jan; 3, 1928.

G.L.C.EARLE BUILDING CONSTRUCTION Filed March 19, 1926 2 Sheets-Sheet l INVENTOR N ORNEY G. L. C. EARLE BUILDING CONSTRUCTION Filed March 19, 1926 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 \1 l l I Jan. 3, 1928. 1,654,683

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Patented Jan. 3, 1928.

' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

QUYON C. EAR-LE, ,0! FOREST HILLS; NEW YORK- BUHJDING CONSTRUCTION. iv v I Application filed Marcus, 1926i Serial llo. 95,341.

M invention relates to a combination residential and garage construction.

One object of the invention is to so combine adjacent residences, for example twofamily residences, and a number of individual garages as to provide a combined structure to give each family an individual, conveniently accessible garage, the buildings and garages being so correlated that the whole combination may be artistically and conveniently planned in accordance with the best done along this line to satisfactorily meet the needs of occupants of small residences in towns and suburbs where the family automobile is the general rule, and the individual garage almost a necessit The usual detached garage is an unsightly out house and, besides, 'is only possible where a substantial yard surrounds the house. Garages have been built into the basements of residences, but where this expedient has been employed it has usually been necessary to provide gradients to the entrances which are inconveniently and sometimes almost impossibly,

' steep, and are unsightly. By my invention I avoid these difficulties and provide the necessary individual garages for a group of families with a minimum of space for driveways and with small gradients, while giving -a combination structure satisfactorily compact, architecturally pleasing in appearance, and economical in space.

This feature of my invention I effect by a combination of residential buildings, as twofamily houses, with a central roadway entrance between them, the roadway preferably being constructed as a ramp inclined downwardly from the entrance, while garages, corresponding in number to the families for which the buildings are intended, are arranged in a group around the level area beyond the ramp, thoseat the side being preferably basement garages in the residential buildings, while those at the back close "up the end of he roadway and have side walls adjacent to the rear ends of the side walls of the buildings. Further details as to this feature of the lnvention and its advantages will presently appear.

Another object of the invention isto so paratively small gradient.

Little has been Referring to the drawings- Fig. 1 is a diagrammatic plan of parts of adjacentresidential buildings and the ga-' rages at the end of the ramp illustrating the general features of my invention; and

Fig. 2 is a side view partly in cross-section on the line 22 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a broken cross-section through one of the residential buildings.

4 is a ramp which, as indicated, has its open end towards the street on which the combination structure faces. This ramp is inclined from the street downwardly to about the point 5, so that there is a level road-way 6 beloyv the street level from which garages may be entered. 7, 7 indicate the front and 8, 8 the-side walls of adjacent resi dences, say two-family residences, of a group intended to house eight families. 9, 9 represent four individual basement garages which are built into the respective residential buildings on opposite sides of the lower area 6 and have floors onthe same level as that area. 10, 10 indicate the doors of these garages. 11, 11 represent garages, each assumed to be identical with the garage illustrated in Fig.

2 and built in to fill across the space between the walls 8 at the rear end of the ramp, the outer walls of these garages being substantiallycontinuations of the side-walls 8, 8.

Referring now to Figs. 2 and 3, each of the residential buildings has its lower living floor at two levels, that of the floor 19 in the front part of the building and that of the floor 12 at the rear of the building, there being a few steps 13 between. By this construction I am enabled to obtain the desired height for the basement garage without either raising the front of the house to an undesirable height above the street level or providin an undesirably steep ramp. e height 0 the arage is obtained partly by the raising of t e house front by an amount indicated by the front steps, partly by the raised floor within the house by an amount indicated by the ste s 13 and partly by excavation to the love 6 reached by a ramp of very easy gradient. Convenience, economy and conditions enablin the most pleasing architectural designs a result from my invention.

The double story gara es at the rear portion of the area 6 eac have upper and lower inclined and parallel floors 7 and 8. 15 is an entrance door facing the area 6 so that entrance to this compartment from the street level is from the down incline of ramp 4:. The street level is shown by the line 16. The upper compartment or floor of the garage has the entrance door 17 at the op osite end of the structure from door an from this door to the ground level there is a ramp 18 having, as shown, the same gradient as the inclined floors of the garage. I do not claim herein my novel construction of double-story garage apart fromi ters Patent is:

1. A combinationresidential and garage construction comprising grouped dwelling houses each provided with a basement ga rage, the adjacent side walls of the dwellings being separated from each other and each provided with a garage entrance, an inclined ramp between said walls, garages extending across the area beyond the lower end of the ramp and connecting the corners of the dwellings, the several garage entrances being located about said area.

2. A combination residential and garage construction comprising grouped dwelling houses each provided with a plurality of basement garages having adjacent entrances in the same wall, the said walls being separated to permit a roadway between them, and a group of garages outside the dwellings, the outer side walls of the group being located to be substantially continuations of the said dwelling house walls, the

garages of said group being provided with entrances facing the roadway space between the dwellin houses.

3. A com ination residential and garage 1 construction comprising rou d dwelling houses each provided wit 1 a asement garage, the adjacent side-walls of the dwellings being separated by a road-way space, a

ment garages opening on the space beyond the bottom of said ramp, and independent garages facing the rear of said space.

ramp in the front part of said space inclined downward from the front, said base- 4. In combination residential and garage" construction, a building having a front portion with its floor elevated above the general ground level and a rear portion with itsfloor elevated above that of the front portion, an adjacent ramp leading downward from the ground level to a space below the street level,and a basement garage. in said building having an entrance on said space and locatedbeneath the said rear floor portion.

5. A combination residential and garage construction comprising adjacent buildings separated by a roadway space and having front portions with floors above the gen' eral ground level and rear portions with floors above thelevel of those of the front portion, a ramp between the buildings leading downwardly from the front to a space at a lower level, said buildings being also constructed with basement garages at said lower level space and beneath the fioors of said rear portions of the buildings.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification.

G; L. C. EARLE. 7/ 

